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1 Adafruit PCF8523 Real Time Clock Created by lady ada Last updated on :07:09 AM UTC

2 Guide Contents Guide Contents Overview Pinouts Power Pins: I2C Logic pins: Other Pins: Assembly Prepare the header strip: Add the breakout board: And Solder! Usage What is a Real Time Clock? Battery Backup CR mm Diameter - 3V Lithium Coin Cell Battery RTC with Arduino Wiring Talking to the RTC First RTC test Setting the time Reading the time Downloads Datasheets and Files Schematic Fabrication Print RTC with CircuitPython Wiring Adafruit CircuitPython Library Install Usage Setting the time Adafruit Industries Page 2 of 22

3 Overview This is a great battery-backed real time clock (RTC) that allows your microcontroller project to keep track of time even if it is reprogrammed, or if the power is lost. Perfect for datalogging, clock-building, time stamping, timers and alarms, etc. Equipped with PCF8523 RTC - it can run from 3.3V or 5V power & logic! Adafruit Industries Page 3 of 22

4 Works great with an Arduino using our RTC library or with a Raspberry Pi (or similar single board linux computer) PCB & header are included Plugs into any breadboard, or you can use wires Two mounting holes Will keep time for 5 years or more The PCF8523 is simple and inexpensive but not a high precision device. It may lose or gain up to 2 seconds a day. For a high-precision, temperature compensated alternative, please check out the DS3231 precision RTC. If you need a DS1307 for compatibility reasons, check out our DS1307 RTC breakout Adafruit Industries Page 4 of 22

5 Pinouts The PCF8523 is a I2C device. That means it uses the two I2C data/clock wires available on most microcontrollers, and can share those pins with other sensors as long as they don't have an address collision. For future reference, the default I2C address is 0x68. You cannot change it. Power Pins: VCC - this is the power pin. This chip can be powered by 3-5VDC so there is now on-board regulator. To power the board, give it the same power as the logic level of your microcontroller - e.g. for a 5V micro like Arduino, use 5V GND - common ground for power and logic I2C Logic pins: Adafruit Industries Page 5 of 22

6 SCL - I2C clock pin, connect to your microcontrollers I2C clock line. SDA - I2C data pin, connect to your microcontrollers I2C data line. Other Pins: The SQW pin is for square-wave output if you enable it Adafruit Industries Page 6 of 22

7 Assembly Assembly is really easy, you can use straight or 'right-angle' style headers to attach to the PCB. We'll be using the plain straight headers included The board comes with all surface-mount components pre-soldered. The included header strip can be soldered on for convenient use on a breadboard or with 0.1" connectors. You can also skip this step and solder on wires. Prepare the header strip: Cut the strip to length if necessary. It will be easier to solder if you insert it into a breadboard - long pins down Adafruit Industries Page 7 of 22

8 Add the breakout board: Place the breakout board over the pins so that the short pins poke through the breakout pads And Solder! Be sure to solder all 5 pins for reliable electrical contact. (For tips on soldering, be sure to check out our Guide to Excellent Soldering ( Adafruit Industries Page 8 of 22

9 You're done! Check your solder joints visually and continue onto the next steps. Adafruit Industries Page 9 of 22

10 Usage What is a Real Time Clock? When logging data, it's often really really useful to have timestamps! That way you can take data one minute apart (by checking the clock) or noting at what time of day the data was logged. The Arduino IDE does have a built-in timekeeper called millis() (CircuitPython has time) and theres' also timers built into the chip that can keep track of longer time periods like minutes or days. So why would you want to have a separate RTC chip? Well, the biggest reason is that millis()/time only keeps track of time since the board was last powered - that means that when the power is turned on, the millisecond timer is set back to 0. The board doesn't know its 'Tuesday' or 'March 8th' all it can tell is 'Its been 14,000 milliseconds since I was last turned on'. OK so what if you wanted to set the time? You'd have to program in the date and time and you could have it count from that point on. But if it lost power, you'd have to reset the time. Much like very cheap alarm clocks: every time they lose power they blink 12:00 While this sort of basic timekeeping is OK for some projects, a data-logger will need to have consistent timekeeping that doesnt reset when the power goes out or is reprogrammed. Thus, we include a separate RTC! The RTC chip is a specialized chip that just keeps track of time. It can count leap-years and knows how many days are in a month, but it doesn't take care of Daylight Savings Time (because it changes from place to place) This image shows a computer motherboard with a Real Time Clock called the DS1387. Theres a lithium battery in there which is why it's so big. The RTC we'll be using is the PCF8523 Battery Backup As long as it has a coin cell to run it, the RTC will merrily tick along for a long time, even when the Feather loses power, or is reprogrammed. Use any CR1220 3V lithium metal coin cell battery: Adafruit Industries Page 10 of 22

11 CR mm Diameter - 3V Lithium Coin Cell Battery PRODUCT ID: $0.95 IN STOCK You MUST have a coin cell installed for the RTC to work, if there is no coin cell, it will act strangely and possibly hang the Arduino when you try to use it, so ALWAYS make SURE there's a battery installed, even if it's a dead battery. Adafruit Industries Page 11 of 22

12 RTC with Arduino Wiring Wiring it up is easy, connect GND to GND on your board VCC to the logic level power of your board (on classic Arduinos & Metros use 5V, on 3.3V devices use 3.3V) SDA to the SDA i2c data pin SCL to the SCL i2c clock pin There are internal 10K pull-ups on the PCF8523 on SDA and SCL to the VCC voltage Talking to the RTC pcfmetro Fritzing The RTC is an i2c device, which means it uses 2 wires to to communicate. These two wires are used to set the time and retrieve it. For the RTC library, we'll be using a fork of JeeLab's excellent RTC library, which is available on GitHub. You can do that by visiting the github repo and manually downloading or, easier go to the Arduino Library Manager Adafruit Industries Page 12 of 22

13 Type in RTClib - and find the one that is by Adafruit and click Install There are a few different 'forks' of RTClib, make sure you are using the ADAFRUIT one! We also have a great tutorial on Arduino library installation at: Once done, restart the IDE First RTC test The first thing we'll demonstrate is a test sketch that will read the time from the RTC once a second. We'll also show what happens if you remove the battery and replace it since that causes the RTC to halt. So to start, remove the battery from the holder while the Feather is not powered or plugged into USB. Wait 3 seconds and then replace the battery. This resets the RTC chip. Now load up the matching sketch for your RTC Open up Examples->RTClib->pcf8523 Upload it to your board with the PCF8523 breakout board or FeatherWing connected Adafruit Industries Page 13 of 22

14 Now open up the Serial Console and make sure the baud rate is set correctly at baud you should see the following: Whenever the RTC chip loses all power (including the backup battery) it will reset to an earlier date and report the time as 0:0:0 or similar. Whenever you set the time, this will kickstart the clock ticking. So, basically, the upshot here is that you should never ever remove the battery once you've set the time. You shouldn't have to and the battery holder is very snug so unless the board is crushed, the battery won't 'fall out' Setting the time With the same sketch loaded, uncomment the line that starts with RTC.adjust like so: Adafruit Industries Page 14 of 22

15 if (! rtc.initialized()) { Serial.println("RTC is NOT running!"); // following line sets the RTC to the date & time this sketch was compiled rtc.adjust(datetime(f( DATE ), F( TIME ))); This line is very cute, what it does is take the Date and Time according the computer you're using (right when you compile the code) and uses that to program the RTC. If your computer time is not set right you should fix that first. Then you must press the Upload button to compile and then immediately upload. If you compile and then upload later, the clock will be off by that amount of time. Then open up the Serial monitor window to show that the time has been set From now on, you won't have to ever set the time again: the battery will last 5 or more years Reading the time Now that the RTC is merrily ticking away, we'll want to query it for the time. Let's look at the sketch again to see how this is done Adafruit Industries Page 15 of 22

16 void loop () { DateTime now = rtc.now(); Serial.print(now.year(), DEC); Serial.print('/'); Serial.print(now.month(), DEC); Serial.print('/'); Serial.print(now.day(), DEC); Serial.print(" ("); Serial.print(daysOfTheWeek[now.dayOfTheWeek()]); Serial.print(") "); Serial.print(now.hour(), DEC); Serial.print(':'); Serial.print(now.minute(), DEC); Serial.print(':'); Serial.print(now.second(), DEC); Serial.println(); There's pretty much only one way to get the time using the RTClib, which is to call now(), a function that returns a DateTime object that describes the year, month, day, hour, minute and second when you called now(). There are some RTC libraries that instead have you call something like RTC.year() and RTC.hour() to get the current year and hour. However, there's one problem where if you happen to ask for the minute right at 3:14:59 just before the next minute rolls over, and then the second right after the minute rolls over (so at 3:15:00) you'll see the time as 3:14:00 which is a minute off. If you did it the other way around you could get 3:15:59 - so one minute off in the other direction. Because this is not an especially unlikely occurance - particularly if you're querying the time pretty often - we take a 'snapshot' of the time from the RTC all at once and then we can pull it apart into day() or second() as seen above. It's a tiny bit more effort but we think its worth it to avoid mistakes! We can also get a 'timestamp' out of the DateTime object by calling unixtime which counts the number of seconds (not counting leapseconds) since midnight, January 1st 1970 Serial.print(" since 2000 = "); Serial.print(now.unixtime()); Serial.print("s = "); Serial.print(now.unixtime() / 86400L); Serial.println("d"); Since there are 60*60*24 = seconds in a day, we can easily count days since then as well. This might be useful when you want to keep track of how much time has passed since the last query, making some math a lot easier (like checking if it's been 5 minutes later, just see if unixtime() has increased by 300, you dont have to worry about hour changes) Adafruit Industries Page 16 of 22

17 Downloads Datasheets and Files EagleCAD PCB files on GitHub Fritzing object in Adafruit Fritzing library PCF8523 product page Schematic Fabrication Print Adafruit Industries Page 17 of 22

18 Adafruit Industries Page 18 of 22

19 RTC with CircuitPython Wiring Wiring it up is easy, connect GND to GND on your board VCC to the logic level power of your board - every CircuitPython board uses 3.3V SDA to the SDA i2c data pin SCL to the SCL i2c clock pin There are internal 10K pull-ups on the PCF8523 on SDA and SCL to the VCC voltage Adafruit CircuitPython Library Install To use the RTC sensor with your Adafruit CircuitPython board you'll need to install the Adafruit_CircuitPython_PCF8523 module on your board. First make sure you are running the latest version of Adafruit CircuitPython for your board. Next you'll need to install the necessary libraries to use the hardware--carefully follow the steps to find and install these libraries from Adafruit's CircuitPython library bundle. Our introduction guide has a great page on how to install the library bundle for both express and non-express boards. Remember for non-express boards like the, you'll need to manually install the necessary libraries from the bundle: adafruit_bus_device folder adafruit_register folder adafruit_pcf8523.mpy Before continuing make sure your board's lib folder or root filesystem has the adafruit_pcf8523.mpy module, the adafruit_register folder, and the adafruit_bus_device folder copied over. Adafruit Industries Page 19 of 22

20 Usage To demonstrate the usage of the PCF8523 module you can connect to your board's serial REPL to see the output while saving our example sketch to main.py Next connect to the board's serial REPL so you are at the CircuitPython >>> prompt. Then save this script to main.py (back up or remove whatever was there before) import busio import adafruit_pcf8523 import time import board myi2c = busio.i2c(board.scl, board.sda) rtc = adafruit_pcf8523.pcf8523(myi2c) days = ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday") if False: # change to True if you want to write the time! # year, mon, date, hour, min, sec, wday, yday, isdst t = time.struct_time((2017, 10, 29, 15, 14, 15, 0, -1, -1)) # you must set year, mon, date, hour, min, sec and weekday # yearday is not supported, isdst can be set but we don't do anything with it at this time print("setting time to:", t) rtc.datetime = t print() # uncomment for debugging while True: t = rtc.datetime #print(t) # uncomment for debugging print("the date is %s %d/%d/%d" % (days[t.tm_wday], t.tm_mday, t.tm_mon, t.tm_year)) print("the time is %d:%02d:%02d" % (t.tm_hour, t.tm_min, t.tm_sec)) time.sleep(1) # wait a second Setting the time The first time you run the program, you'll need to set the time Adafruit Industries Page 20 of 22

21 find these lines: if False: # change to True if you want to write the time! # year, mon, date, hour, min, sec, wday, yday, isdst t = time.struct_time((2017, 10, 29, 15, 14, 15, 0, -1, -1)) # you must set year, mon, date, hour, min, sec and weekday # yearday is not supported, isdst can be set but we don't do anything with it at this time Change the False to True in the first line, and update the time.struct_time to have the current time starting from year to weekday. The last two entries can stay at -1 Re-run the sketch by saving and you'll see this out of the REPL: Note the part where the program says it is Setting time to: Now you can go back and change the if True to if False and save, so you don't re-set the RTC again. The script will now output the time and date Adafruit Industries Page 21 of 22

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